Literature – Page 56 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Ireland and Dysfunction

Critical Explorations in Literature and Film

Edited By: Asier Altuna-García de Salazar

£52.99

At the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, this compilation explores how dysfunction is tackled in Irish studies. It also investigates how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in understanding the construction process of an Irish identity today.

Shapes of Time in British Twenty-First Century Quantum Fiction

By: Sonia Front

£41.99

Front investigates the use of the notion of time and temporality and its various conceptualizations in theories of the new physics as a thematic and formal framework for the British novel of the twenty-first century.

Who Defines Me

Negotiating Identity in Language and Literature

Edited By: Eid Mohamed, Yasser Fouad Selim

£39.99

Identity is unstable, constructed by variables like ethnicity, race, gender, and culture. Who Defines Me is an interdisciplinary study exploring this negotiation through language and literature, with a focus on Arabs, Muslims, and racial identity in America.

Henry James Today

Edited By: John Carlos Rowe

£41.99

This collection of essays focuses on the relevance of Henry James’s work for understanding current problems. Studies explore his influence on modernist and postmodern writers and his connections to visual and new media, revealing continuities between his era and our own.

We Won’t Make It Out Alive

Patrick McCabe and the Horrors of the Irish Mundane

By: Kate Walls

£34.99

A study of Patrick McCabe’s work. Beneath the grotesque and funny narratives of his characters lurk similar pasts of cruelty and abuse. This book discusses how these childhood traumas and Irish social upheaval drive McCabe's narrators crazy.

The Déjà-vu and the Authentic

Reprise, Recycling, Recuperating in Anglophone Literature and Culture

Edited By: Jean-Jacques Chardin

£39.99

Viewing culture as a palimpsest, constantly rewritten, these essays explore the political and ethical stakes of creative reuse across literature, music, art, and cinema.

Acculturation, Otherness, and Return in Adichie’s Americanah

Outside the Homeland

By: Soheila Arabian, Vida Rahiminezhad

£61.99

This title examines the concepts of diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013), investigating the novel through diasporic concepts such as self and Otherness, acculturation, cultural diversity, hybridity, ambivalence and mimicry, unbelonging and return.

William Morris’ Position between Art and Politics

By: Grzegorz Zinkiewicz

£61.99

This book re-evaluates William Morris by exploring the territories between his art and politics. This “in-between-ness” is his most remarkable quality, securing his unique position and inspiring new insights into a universe that could have no boundaries.

Inside Knowledge

(Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities

Edited By: Maria Boletsi, Itay Sapir, Carolyn Birdsall

£44.99

Can art produce knowledge? Is the body a medium for knowing? This collection of essays offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of how we know what we know in the humanities, challenging conventional methodologies through concrete case studies.

The Faustus Myth in the English Novel

By: Şeyda Sivrioğlu

£58.99

The Faustus myth explores the human instinct to trespass the limits of knowledge for power and self-definition. This book offers perspectives on its literary versions: Marlowe’s tragedy, Goethe’s salvation, and the ambiguous collapse in John Fowles’ The Magus.

Literary Hermeneutics

From Methodology to Ontology

By: Tomasz Kalaga

£41.99

This book analyses the evolution of literary hermeneutics, tracing its transformation from a methodology of reading to an ontological instrument for redefining the self, highlighting its vital role in contemporary debates over interpretation.

Northrop Frye’s Lectures

Student Notes from His Courses, 1947–1955

Edited By: Robert D. Denham

£73.99

This collection provides a transcription of fifteen sets of notes taken by Northrop Frye’s students in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and is the only available extended record of the courses taught by the great Canadian literary critic and humanist.

Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics

Studies in Agency and Embodiment

Edited By: Katarzyna Lisowska, Jarosław Woźniak

£61.99

These essays view textual and extra-textual worlds as an intimate continuum. Drawing from philosophical somaesthetics and performance studies, they explore the agency of the embodied self, examining literary characters, canons, and reception on a physical, visceral level.

W.B. Yeats and Indian Thought

A Man Engaged in that Endless Research into Life, Death, God

By: Snezana Dabic

£47.99

Dabić investigates the impact of Indian philosophy and religion on Yeats’s poetic and dramatic work, exploring its development from his early impressionistic work to his more mature incorporation of such ideas into his writing.

The Short Story

Edited By: Ailsa Cox

£34.99

The short story is undergoing a renaissance. This collection celebrates its unique appeal, as scholars and writers explore its forms, genres, and international authors from James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. Integrating theory and practice, it appeals to writers and students.

Dwelling in Days Foregone

Nostalgia in American Literature and Culture

Edited By: Weronika Łaszkiewicz, Zbigniew Maszewski

£47.99

Inspired by Svetlana Boym’s seminal study The Future of Nostalgia (2001), the contributions brought together here examine American literary texts and cultural phenomena as manifestations and expressions of nostalgia.

Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics

From Cyrano to Barbarella

Edited By: Philippe Mather, Sylvain Rheault

£47.99

French science-fiction is as old as Cyrano de Bergerac’s trip to the moon and Jules Verne’s scientific adventures. This collection introduces its unique contributions to an English-speaking audience, exploring the genre's deep roots in literature, film, and graphic novels.

French science-fiction is as old as Cyrano de Bergerac’s trip to the moon and Jules Verne’s scientific adventures. This collection introduces its unique contributions to an English-speaking audience, exploring the genre’s deep roots in literature, film, and graphic novels.

“A Noble Unrest”

Contemporary Essays on the Work of George MacDonald

Edited By: Jean Webb

£29.99

"A Noble Unrest" is an international collection of essays on George MacDonald, the 19th-century fantasy writer whose work critiqued the Victorian era. Scholars explore his fiction, his influence, and his relevance for the contemporary reader.

“A Noble Unrest” is an international collection of essays on George MacDonald, the 19th-century fantasy writer whose work critiqued the Victorian era. Scholars explore his fiction, his influence, and his relevance for the contemporary reader.

Transatlantic Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Julie A. Chappell, Kamille Stone Stanton

£34.99

In an era defined by writers like William Blake and Olaudah Equiano, this collection proves the anti-slavery movement was no single-authored sensation, but a broader transatlantic discourse spanning the entire long eighteenth century.

Signs of Identity

Literary Constructs and Discursive Practices

Edited By: Emilia Parpală

£61.99

This volume rethinks identity from a communicational and comparative perspective, linking it to performativity. Contributions cover diverse periods and genres, from Medieval clothing to postcolonial narratives, for all those involved in the reevaluation of this central term.